Claudia Bernhardt de Souza Pacheco
192 pages
Translated to: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish and Russian.
Based on clinical observations and extensive bibliographical research, the author, a psychoanalyst, shares her unique observations about the mind-body connection. Stress taxes the immune system and makes us sick. But the worst stress comes not from outside but from inside of us.
Pacheco writes, “Ninety-nine percent of the time it is we ourselves who adopt an attitude of persecution ... fighting against life, against reality and principally against the consciousness of our errors. And the impending danger to which we are subject is the danger of having to cease being the godlike creatures we think we are. Because of this “theomania”, we create our own torture chamber. Man struggles against his nature and his health and kills himself, while firmly believing that his interests are directed toward reality.”
In the first section of the book, Pacheco analyzes the psychosomatic roots of many common ailments including asthma, headaches, ulcers, cancer, glaucoma, and arthritis. She discusses illness in children, the family pact, psycho social disease and more. The second section of the book is a comprehensive explanation of the therapeutic methodology of Analytical Trilogy and the technique of interiorization, which the author uses to treat patients in her clinical practice.
|
